The role of social media as a researcher, learner and teacher

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Its that

social mediastuff again


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I dont know much about computers

but I do like talking to people

Tristram Hooley


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iCeGS: Creative Solutions for the Careers Sector

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www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

The role of social media as a

researcher, learner and teacher

Tristram Hooley


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What kind of academic do you want to

be?

Tristram Hooley


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In these talks I balance

Social media can

give you

competitive

advantage over

other academics

Social media cantransform the world


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What would Antonio Gramsci say?

Each man, finally, outside his professional activity, carries onsome form of intellectual activity, that is, he is a "philosopher",an artist, a man of taste, he participates in a particularconception of the world, has a conscious line of moral conduct,

and therefore contributes to sustain a conception of the worldor to modify it, that is, to bring into being new modes ofthought.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the

function of intellectuals.

One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for anew moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a

new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling andseein realit .


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So can social media

help you to become a better academic?

help you to win the academic rat race?

help you to become more the sort of academicthat you want to be?

help you to become a different sort of academic?

help you to change the world?


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Who the hell am I?

Staff page

Blog

Twitter CiteULike

Youll also find the social me on Facebook and bits

of me on YouTube, LinkedIn and a range of other

social media sites (often dead profiles).
http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs/staff-and-associates/icegs-staff/dr-tristram-hooley-head-of-icegshttp://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com/http://twitter.com/http://www.citeulike.org/profile/pigironjoehttp://www.citeulike.org/profile/pigironjoehttp://twitter.com/http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com/http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs/staff-and-associates/icegs-staff/dr-tristram-hooley-head-of-icegs


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What is social media?

Internet services where the online content is

generated by the users of the service.

Why should academics be interested in it?


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Transforming professional as well

as social practice Thompson et al. (2008). The intersection of online social

networking with medical professionalism.

Reisman (2009). Will pharma twitter?

Dupuis (2009). Librarians and social media engagement.Bristol (2010). Twitter: Consider the possibilities for

continuing nursing education.

Li (2010). Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can

Transform the Way You Lead.

Hooley et al. (2010). Careering through the web.

Hew (2011). Students' and teachers' use of facebook.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-008-0538-8http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-008-0538-8http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20140105http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2009/11/librarians_and_engaging_on_soc.phphttp://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20100423-09http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20100423-09http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0470597267http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0470597267http://www.ukces.org.uk/assets/bispartners/ukces/docs/publications/careering-through-the-web.pdfhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.11.020http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.11.020http://www.ukces.org.uk/assets/bispartners/ukces/docs/publications/careering-through-the-web.pdfhttp://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0470597267http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0470597267http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20100423-09http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20100423-09http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2009/11/librarians_and_engaging_on_soc.phphttp://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20140105http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-008-0538-8http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-008-0538-8


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We have experienced a growth in

leisure time


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We have mainly used this for

Consume


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But social media is challenging TV

People are using their leisure time to create, share andsocialise.

Jay Rosen calls us the people known formerly as theaudience

Clay Shirky* says that we are creating a cognative surplusthat can be used for the good of humanity.

The question is what are we creating and does it have anyvalue?

*See Clay Shirky (2009) Here comes everybodyand (2010) Cognitive surplusfor more argument on these lines.


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For social/educational researchers

This means that

The nature of what we are studying (social

interactions between people) is changing.

But also that

The way that we go about that study needs to

change (new research methods)

And that The way we operate as a profession is also likely

to change (new professionalisms).


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Social media: A guide for

researchers
http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/social_media_guide_for_screen.pdf


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How do I use social media?

Identification:Twitter& CiteULike

Creation: Questioning on Twitter, trying ideas on

the blog, recruiting research participants

Quality assurance: Getting feedback on the

blog, looking at hit rates and citation rates

Dissemination: Publishing on the blog, feeding to

Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and CiteULike.

Collaboration: Using Google docs, Dropbox, the

blog, Twitter and CiteULike.
http://twitter.com/http://www.citeulike.org/http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com/http://www.linkedin.com/http://www.facebook.com/https://docs.google.com/https://docs.google.com/http://www.facebook.com/http://www.linkedin.com/http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com/http://www.citeulike.org/http://twitter.com/


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Using social media for knowledge

transfer Communities emerge

around content

Networks have to be

curated to make them

useful

Reciprocity underpins

the whole thing

We have to be part of

the community rather

than outside of it.


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Communities emerge around

content

Lots of engagement strategies amount to the

creation of a big empty room


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Academics have fantastic content to

share

People will engage with you and your ideasthey wont

start sharing in the abstract


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How do networks work?

Not like this


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How do networks work?


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Lessons from network theory

You dont need to know everyone.

Knowing who the connectors are is important

Be aware of what networks you are in and whatones you are not in

Being part of a network takes time and energy

you cant be part of everything.


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What do you want from a network?

Diversity

Independence

De-centralisation

(Surowiecki, 2004)

Also

People who share your interests

People to have fun/sociability with


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Reciprocity

a state or relationship in which there is mutual

action, influence, giving and taking, correspondence,

etc., between two parties or things

OED


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A brief case study


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Some books you might want to read
http://blog.chumbonus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/wisdom-of.jpg


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www derby ac uk/icegs

My contact details

[email protected]

@pigironjoe

http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.com

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